By Viviane Faver About 850 members from nearly four dozen Brazilian indigenous communities are camped in Brasilia to fight for indigenous land rights currently under consideration in the courts and Congress of Brazil. While lawmakers still debate the issue, indigenous peoples continue to be forcibly […]
Officers killed four suspects and arrested two others in theassassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, 53, The Washington Post reports. The attack on the president, which took place in the early morning hours on Wednesday, July 7, and also resulted in injuries to his wife, has heightened […]
Lee is the first Black jury president at Cannes, and described it as “the world’s greatest film festival” during Tuesday’s official press conference At the Cannes Film Festival press conference on Tuesday, jury president and esteemed filmmaker Spike Leespoke on “Black people being hunted down,” Donald Trump, […]
By Audrey J. Bernard Taraji P. Henson hosted the 2021 BET Awards show on Sunday, June 27, 2021, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles and had more changes than Diana Ross! Ironically, Ross was the first look she imitated in her tribute to Black women […]
Mahogany L. Browne is a poet, “author, organizer, and educator” from Brooklyn, N.Y. who knows a thing or two about fostering a sense of community. Browne serves as the Executive Director of JustMedia, which is a “literacy initiative designed to support the groundwork of criminal justice leaders and community […]
President Joe Biden on Saturday condoned the suspension of track star Sha’carri Richardson, but said he was “really proud of the way” she responded to the announcement. Richardson has been in the national spotlight since her victories at the Olympic trials in June, but on Friday, she […]
July 2, 2021 EditEdit with WPBakery Page Builder Seventeen-year-old track and field star Erriyon Knighton has been working hard this month, and it’s officially paying off. Late last month, Knighton broke Usain Bolt’s under-18 200 meters record with a time of 20.11 shortly after going pro — the Jamaican Olympic […]
After two friends named Michael Chapman and Toks Ahmed crossed paths with a woman who “struggled with the size of her swim cap,” the entrepreneurial men designed a larger cap which could accommodate bulkier hair types, such as curly textures or Afro hair, according to the company’s […]
Photos by Maria Baranova Viviane Faver Produced by Times Square Arts, the exhibition, How I Keep Looking Up: Flags of Resilience, by the organization’s first resident public artist, Christine Wong Yap, will be in the streets of Times Square until August 9th. The project collaborates with Encore Community Services, […]
Activist and Olympic hopeful Gwen Berry turned her back on the flag during an Olympic trail metal ceremony in Oregon, but feels the timing was intentional on the part of organizers. Berry, who won a bronze in a competition for the hammer throw, first turned […]
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